Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“If I could sum up the lives of people like me—people whose parents don’t write books, whose aunties and cousins don’t step… — Daisy Hernandez Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. — John Searles Copy Share Image
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
“I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books. — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
“They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires,… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let… — Sarra Cannon Copy Share Image
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
